Stories written by PhilipGiraldi

IMEMC, January 17, 2014 – Israeli forces handed out 12 demolition orders, this Thursday, to Palestinians residing in the village of Sa’ir, in the southern al-Khalil hills close to Hebron.

By Manny Friedman. The Times of Israel, July 1, 2012 – We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, […]

“…it seems perfectly rational to increase sanctions until Iran cries uncle… But that has been the policy and it brought Iran to the negotiating table. Americans are right about that principle. But there comes a point at which the sanctions have worked and we have the result we said we were looking for: a frozen program and a negotiation. The […]

“…here we are, with the lofty, pizza-challenged mayor of New York City, right after a landslide election, caught keeping a speech to AIPAC off his public itinerary and barring any press coverage of it. Weird, innit? What would he have to hide? Well here’s an audio of the speech that AIPAC, according to De Blasio, asked […]

By Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Journal, January 23, 2014 – When a social movement struggles to expand human rights for all, it seeks to oxygenate debate and dissent, it invites opponents to engage with the central moral and political issues of the day. Social movements that have the […]

IMEMC, January 26, 1014 – After dozens of settlers uprooted Palestinian trees and farmlands near Wad Rahhal village, south of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers kidnapped coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and detained two journalists.

WAFA, January 26, 2014 – Israeli settlers Saturday night severely beat up a 13-year-old Palestinian in central Hebron, according to the child’s father.

IMEMC, January 26, 2014 – Israeli soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, conducted military searches of homes and property, and kidnapped three Palestinians.

IMEMC, January 26, 2014 – Palestinian sources have reported that several Israelis hurled stones at Palestinian cars driving on Road 1, in occupied Jerusalem; injuries have been reported. The sources stated that dozens of extremists gathered in the area, and threw stones at Palestinian cars before proceeding to assault a young Palestinian man, and stealing his […]

IMEMC, January 25, 2014 – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Tel Aviv would not remove a single Israeli settlement in the occupied territories, and that any ideas proposed now to advance peace talks, “are just proposals.”…